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Medicine in Society Guide 2024/25

7. Assessment

There are four assessments for Medicine in Society: 

  • Reflective piece on professional identity

  • Reflective piece on a patient encounter 

  • Health promotion poster  

  • Student attendance and professionalism

Tutors will be asked to submit each student's attendance record after each placement day, marks for reflective pieces, marks for the poster, and comments on professionalism on a Microsoft Form sent in the introductory email. The same form can be used throughout the module. 


Attendance 

Student attendance is recorded on each placement day by the tutor on the Microsoft Form sent in the introductory email.  

You should consider a placement day to be a work day and attendance is expected every day.  If you are unable to attend you must inform your tutor in advance.

Tutors must inform us at the time of any non-attendance and whether the student informed them of this or if it was unexplained.  If tutors have any concerns about a student’s attendance, behaviour, health etc. they should contact the unit convenor as soon as possible. 

There may be occasions during the year when students have a progress test on the Friday after a MedSoc day; these tests are formative and students must attend their placement as usual. 

Students need to have attended the placement, passed both pieces of reflection, presented the health promotion poster and passed the professionalism assessment to successfully complete Medicine in Society and progress. 

Repeated and/or unexplained absences will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.  

Students need to submit their work for assessment on QM+ and email it to their GP tutor before the deadline for their group as outlined in the assessment timetable.  

If you require an extension for your assessment, please make an application on MySIS no later than 12pm of the deadline date. 

Any request for an extension received after this time will need to provide good reason as to why the claim could not have been submitted earlier.

Self-certification claims will only allow a maximum of 7 days extension. If you need 14 days, then you must submit a standard claim with evidence.

Students who do not submit and pass will be required to complete a remediation task in order to progress through the course.